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Texas Astronomers Help Find Earth’s Older, Bigger Cousin

UT Austin astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler mission have helped to discover the first near-Earth-sized planet around a Sun-like star in the “habitable zone,” the range of distances where liquid water could pool on a planet’s surface.
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Smarter Window Materials Can Control Light and Energy

Cockrell School Engineers have two new advancements in smart window materials that allow indoor occupants to more precisely control the energy and sunlight passing through a window.
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$13.7 Million NSF Grant Creates Natural Hazards Engineering Center at UT Austin

The Cockrell School of Engineering is leading the effort to build a software platform, data repository and tools that will help the US design more resilient buildings, levees and other public infrastructure that could protect lives, property and communities.
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Keck Foundation Awards $1.5 Million for New Method to Cool Atoms and Student Research

The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded scientists at UT AUstin two grants totaling $1.5 million to develop a powerful, alternative method for cooling atoms and involve more undergraduate students in using new advanced technologies for research.
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From the Forty Acres to Pluto: Longhorns in Space

As NASA’s New Horizons approaches Pluto, one alumnus will have particular cause to celebrate the accomplishment. From leading historic missions to out-of-this-world research, explore how Longhorns are changing the world with space-related projects.
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The Mystery of the Brownbanded Bamboo Shark

Sharks are splashing across TV screens all week as viewers who love (or fear) the kings of the sea are tuning into shows about the allure (or revulsion) of great whites, hammerheads, makos and more. But if you want to unravel a great shark mystery – and learn why it gives researchers hope about the…
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Investors May Be Missing Hidden Warnings in Audit Reports

Investors may be overlooking information about financial misstatement risk in unqualified audit reports, according to research from the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin.
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Earthquakes in Western Solomon Islands Have Long History, Study Shows

Researchers have found that parts of the western Solomon Islands, a region thought to be free of large earthquakes until an 8.1 magnitude quake devastated the area in 2007, have a long history of big seismic events.
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Corals Are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say

Some coral populations already have genetic variants necessary to tolerate warm ocean waters, and humans can help to spread these genes, a team of scientists has found.
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UT Game Changers: Todd Humphreys, The Future of GPS

In this Web edition of UT Game Changers on The Longhorn Network, Todd Humphreys addresses the current use and future potential of GPS technology.
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Brain Imaging Technique Receives NIH Grant

A biomedical engineer at the Cockrell School of Engineering has received a $1.8 million NIH grant to advance his light-based technique for imaging blood flow across the brain that could help patients undergoing neurosurgery.
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Rain and Research: Longhorns Working with Weather

UT Austin researchers are making the most of a rainy spring in Central Texas. Learn how Longhorns are working with the weather.